The Latest Breaking News from an El Niño

In the past few years in Australia, seasonal rainfall and temperatures have left a lot of people confused. Sometimes, the hot, dry conditions usually associated with an El Niño have not eventuated. Similarly, there have been years where a La Niña did not lead to the cool, wet conditions expected.

Seven months after an El Niño associated with hotter and drier weather got under way, conditions have returned to neutral

Most of the country likely to experience ‘unusually warm days’ but Bureau of Meteorology has yet to declare an El Niño

Bureau of Meterology says most of the country is likely to be warmer than average, but El Niño pattern is hard to predict with certainty

‘If we have an El Niño supercharged by climate change then we could be in for a very bad summer,’ a UNSW academic says

The Northern Hemisphere summer has brought one extreme event after another – from heatwaves to wildfires and floods. It comes as the world likely heads into an El Niño pattern, which brings a higher chance of hot, dry weather in much of Australia.

The UN has declared the world to be in the grip of the weather pattern but Australian scientists are not so sure. Why the uncertainty?

An El Niño event has arrived, according to the World Meteorological Organization, raising fears of record high global temperatures, extreme weather and, in Australia, a severe fire season.

World Meteorological Organization says weather pattern is in place, which for Australia increases risk of drought, heatwaves, bushfires and coral bleaching